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It is such a small world! I clicked on this post to see if there was some new controversy that was being stirred up. I read about the death of someone local that I did not know and then also learned of the death of a good friend. I climbed with Gaby Llano in Ecuador earlier this year. He is one of the best climbers in Ecuador and had a love for life, people and climbing that I had not experienced before. He was afraid of something like this happening and did not want to leave his young wife and son without a husband and father. What an absolute tragedy! So many dreams unfulfilled.

Doesn't seem to be a consensus building about where to enjoy the weather this evening. How about the Ballroom. Nice outdoor seating and somewhat central location for Seattle. I can't show until about 9:15 and getting kicked off the beach at 11:00 pm sucked last time.

Moon - Erik's current autosig is a much better likeness of Snoop than the previous one. Life isn't fair BTW, so why should you expect a message board to be a place for fairness? The people in control always set the rules. That's just how it works

So was last night a wild pub club? The board's been pretty quiet this am. Sorry I didn't support our southern drinkers. I had Spanish class until 9 and figured I'd get there just as things were breaking up.

Nice work Matt. I wonder what the slowest car to car time is? I think my recent trip up the Tooth with Carolyn and FiggureEight could win that prize. We did it in 9 hours. We were suprised by many parties on the route on a Tuesday. I think we were the 7th group in line that day. Even so it was still a fun day. And we didn't get a notice about parking without a pass.

V's birthday gathering/pub club meeting was great. I showed up on the late side because of class, but got to see some familiar faces who were still around. A small group of us stayed 'til after 11 hanging out and settling the bill. Thought I'd mention that people had to pony up some extra coin to cover the tab. If you forgot to contribute to the pitchers or for your food, please chip in a bit extra next time so the guys/gals who paid more than their share can drink for free. Cheers!

Call the people at Rescue Specialists in Leavenworth. They do a great WFR course and used to do a high angle rescue class. They stopped doing it other than for groups, but am sure they can recommend a good company. www.rescuespec.com Good luck.

as always Dwayner an accurate and humorous trip report.

Plan to join either the Yosemite Sep trek or the jail party. Whichever sounds more fun at the time...

Uncle Tricky - the knot may be called a figure 9. I'm not sure. It is a standard figure 8 follow through knot with the tail passed back through the knot loop on the bottom as a backup knot. I think we're talking about the same thing based on your description. On fisherman's knots for rappeling, if you tie a square knot before tying the fisherman's you will always be able to untie the knot.

I vote for the Zoo. Let's try someplace we haven't been yet.

Wow. What a tragic incident. Thanks for sharing the report. It's hard to know what happened, but the knot inverting and untying itself could have been the problem. I feel compelled to also comment on another variation of the figure 8 knot that I use (and many of my partners as well) to tie into the rope. If you pass the tail back through the knot and pull it all the way through the knot can intert if there is a lot of force placed on it in a fall. The knot comes untied if it inverts twice. If you like this tie in method better than using a fishermans or other backup knot, the way to make sure it doesn't invert is to leave a few inches of rope out the top of the turn and to completely dress the knot. If the knot inverts it will catch itself on the tail and only invert once, not twice.

I think I got the name wrong. I was thinking of the Ale House too. But if others are down with the Alki I'll go there. Hikerwa - do they still have $0.75 burgers on Tuesdays?

Owl & Thistle or the Ballard Grill were good locations that could handle a crowd our size.

It was a fun time despite the early last call at 11:00. I'm glad we made it back from our day out on the Tooth, showing Carolyn another fine alpine climb. See ya'll next week.

Made it down to the park and saw no posted restrictions about glass bottles or alcoholic beverages. The only signes are about dogs on beaches (not allowed) and dumping of trash. So as long as the dogs stay off the beach and we recycle our bottles everything should be ok. If you're concerned bring a cup to pour your beer into. Cheers!

Don't know. I'll go check the signs later today and see.

The weather forecast for tomorrow looks good for a Golden Gardens pub club. So bring some beer (or whatever drink you desire), camp chair, sunglasses and stories. See you there.

Coondog - I've been having the same problem for the past 5 months. A lot of climbing/traveling and trying to remember the weekly filing in the middle of it all. I think they should just give out a lump sum of entitled benefits and call it a gov't severance package. The only bum of this extended road trip is that too many of my friends still work 5 days a week...

Dave $340 sounds like a good deal. Bummer the drunk gets to stay... Got a couple of other good leads in the neighborhood though. Thanks.

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My lease is up at the end of the month. I'm looking to rent a room in a house with one or two cool people who like to outdoors. If you know of anything send me a pm.

Figger8 - And the chicks climb only for you too...

Siting outside and drinking beer was great last night. Anyone interested in a pub club on the beach at Golden Gardens next week? We'd have to drink bottled beer and bring our own camp chairs, but I think we can all handle that. I think they even have fire pits and maybe AlpineK can contribute some firewood.

Dwayner? I missed you last night at the drinking fest in Fremont. Don't think there's a connection between the two Donnas. See you soon.